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I would say the connection between art and science is very tenuous for me. It's just that I'm interested in both. I don't think that my interest in art affects the kind of science that I do.
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People used to try to hijack quantum mechanics and its inherent mystery to cast a cloud around determinism, in the hope that free will could survive modern physics. But that never worked very well. Since when does random chance equal free will? The only salvation for volition is a soul and faith and you’re not allowed to ask me about that.
Janna Levin
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Black holes can bang against space-time as mallets on a drum and have a very characteristic song.
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Topology and number theory are my faves.
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I think there's a certain lyricism in the telling of a scientific story.
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We have to wonder, if there is a multiverse, in some other patch of that multiverse are there creatures?
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I'd like to convince you that the universe has a soundtrack and that soundtrack is played on space itself, because space can wobble like a drum.
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The Earth isn't an infinite sheet that carries on for ever, but it doesn't have an edge, either. It's compact and connected.
Janna Levin
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We have never observed infinity in nature. Whenever you have infinities in a theory, that's where the theory fails as a description of nature. And if space was born in the Big Bang, yet is infinite now, we are forced to believe that it's instantaneously, infinitely big. It seems absurd.
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Now, our Sun will not collapse to a black hole. It's actually not massive enough.
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'(By moving) I'm making sounds on the drums of spacetime'… 'Space itself wobbles and rumbles like a drum... Black holes can bang on spacetime like mallets on a drum'
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Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science.
Janna Levin